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15th January 2015
06:20pm GMT

POOL 2:
Harlequins 13
Leinster 13
Wasps 12
Castres 1
Leinster are best placed of the Irish provinces, but could just as easily finish third as top of Pool 2. Struggling Castres have their minds on Top 14 matters and should offer little resistance at the RDS on Saturday, but a bonus-point win would really put the pressure on English rivals Harlequins and Wasps, who play later that evening. On one hand, even though Leinster will finish behind Harlequins should the sides end the pool level on points, a Quins victory would knock Wasps out of contention and make Leinster's trip to Coventry a much easier proposition. A Wasps success would throw the pool wide open, with Leinster needing to avoid defeat to reach the last eight.
POOL 3:
Toulon 13
Scarlets 8
Leicester 8
Ulster 6
Poor Ulster travel to Toulon this weekend knowing they are as good as out after the back-breaking defeat in Llanelli last time out. They are mathematically still alive but even with a pair of nearly impossible to imagine bonus-point victories over the reigning champions and Leicester, Ulster would require miracles in the other pools to sneak into the quarter-finals. Toulon, meanwhile, need to keep pushing on to earn a home quarter-final, while the winner of Friday night's Scarlets-Leicester dust-up will at least be in with a shout of a runners-up berth.
POOL 4:
Toulouse 16
Glasgow 10
Bath 10
Montpellier 2
Toulouse are the only team with a 100 per cent record through four games and are in pole position for a home tie in the knockout stages. Bath visit the pool leaders this weekend, leaving the door open for Glasgow to steal a march when they host bottom team Montpellier. Victory there and Gregor Townsend's side go to the Rec the following week with a place in the quarters on the line.
POOL 5:
Northampton 15
Racing Metro 14
Ospreys 8
Treviso 0
Pool 5 looks set to provide two quarter-finalists in the shape of Northampton and Racing Metro. The Parisians are without Ireland out-half Jonathan Sexton as he continues his enforced absence following a head injury, but the French side, unbeaten through four games, should be able to rack up a bonus-point win when they host a Treviso outfit that has conceded an average of 43 points a game thus far. Northampton face a trickier trip to Swansea, before they host Racing in a final-round showdown to decide the group.
CHALLENGE CUP POOL 2:
Exeter Chiefs 16
Connacht 14
Bayonne 5
La Rochelle 4
Exeter visit the Sportsground on Sunday for the clash which should decide the outcome of the pool. Connacht lost their unbeaten home record last week against Edinburgh last week and are prioritising their assault on the Pro12, but head coach Pat Lam should name a strong line-up in the hopes that victory will allow him to rest players for the following week's trip to La Rochelle.Explore more on these topics: